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Bank Pekao

Bank Pekao, formally Bank Polska Kasa Opieki, is a Polish universal bank founded in 1929, headquartered in Warsaw, and listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since 1998. It is the second-largest universal bank in Poland.

Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI)

Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) is an Indonesian state-controlled commercial bank specializing in micro and small-business lending, founded in 1895 and cited as a global microfinance success story.

Bank rate

The bank rate, also called the minimum lending rate or rediscount rate, is a central-bank interest rate used to steer short-term rates, such as the Bank of England's Bank Rate.

Bank reconciliation

Bank reconciliation is an internal financial report that explains differences between the bank's balance and the company's records, done at least monthly to catch errors and deter fraud.

Bank Restriction Act 1797

The Bank Restriction Act 1797 was a British statute of 3 May 1797 that suspended the Bank of England's gold payments, beginning the 24-year Restriction Period.

Bank robbery

Bank robbery, also known as bank heist, is the taking of money from a bank by force or intimidation, a federal crime in the United States.

Bank run

A bank run, also known as a run on the bank or banking panic, is a sudden wave of withdrawals by depositors who fear a bank will fail, potentially forcing it into insolvency.

Bank Secrecy Act

The Bank Secrecy Act, formally the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, is a United States federal law requiring financial institutions to report cash transactions and suspicious activity.

Bank statement

A bank statement, also called a statement of account, is a periodic document from a bank listing an account's transactions, fees, and opening and closing balances.

Bank Street College of Education

Bank Street College of Education, founded 1916 as the Bureau of Educational Experiments by Lucy Sprague Mitchell, is a private NYC graduate school of progressive education, renamed in 1950, with its Graduate School of Education, School for Children, and Education Center, accredited by MSCHE since 1960.

Bank teller

A bank teller, also known as a bank clerk, is the frontline employee at a retail bank branch who handles deposits, withdrawals, and payments and keeps cash records balanced.

Bank Under Siege

Bank Under Siege (Asalto al Banco Central) is a 2024 Netflix miniseries directed by Daniel Calparsoro about the 23 May 1981 Banco Central robbery in Barcelona, in which 11 robbers held over 200 hostages for 37 hours demanding the release of 23-F coup officers.

Bank vault

A bank vault, also called a strongroom, is a reinforced, secured room within a bank built to protect cash, securities, records, and customer safe deposit boxes from theft.

Bank War

The Bank War (1832–1836) was President Andrew Jackson's political struggle against Nicholas Biddle's Second Bank of the United States, ending in its destruction as a national bank.

Bankable star

Bankable star: a film actor whose name alone attracts financing and audiences. Measured via Hollywood Reporter Star Power, Ulmer Scale, The Numbers Bankability Index; a commercial star adds about $12.46M average box office.

Bankart repair

A Bankart repair is surgery that reattaches a torn anteroinferior labrum and capsule to the glenoid rim to stop recurrent anterior shoulder dislocation, described by Bankart in 1923.

Bankaw

Bankaw, also spelled Bancao, was the datu of Limasawa in the Philippines who welcomed Legazpi in 1565 and led a revolt against Spain in 1621.

BankBoston

BankBoston was a Boston-based bank holding company, the 15th largest US commercial bank by the late 1990s, acquired by Fleet Financial Group in 1999 for $16 billion in stock.

Banke Bihari Temple (बांके बिहारी मंदिर)

Banke Bihari Temple (बांके बिहारी मंदिर) is a Hindu temple dedicated to Krishna in Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, whose image was received by the saint Swami Haridas in the sixteenth century.

Banked turn

A banked turn, also called a banked curve, tilts a vehicle, aircraft, or track inward so the tilt itself supplies part of the force turning the path.

Bankfull discharge

Bankfull discharge is the water flow that completely fills a stream's active channel just before spilling onto the floodplain, and it is widely treated as the river's dominant channel-forming flow.

Bankhead

Bankhead, two Roman military sites in Dumfriesshire, Scotland: a small triple-ditched fortlet near Kirkconnel, excavated 1959 and 1963, and superimposed Flavian forts with annexes at Dalswinton, reassessed in 2019.

Bankidas Asiya

Bankidas Asiya (बांकीदास आसिया) was a Charan court poet and historian of Marwar who served Maharaja Man Singh of Jodhpur and wrote the Bankidas ri Khyat, a chronicle of Rajasthan's history.

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (বঙ্কিম চন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়)

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, also known as Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (বঙ্কিম চন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়), was an Indian Bengali novelist born in 1838 whose Anandamath contains Vande Mataram.

Banking Act of 1935

The Banking Act of 1935 is a US federal law that shifted Federal Reserve monetary policy power to the Board of Governors and created the FOMC.

Banking crisis

A banking crisis is a situation where actual or feared losses across a country's banking system trigger runs, failures, and emergency intervention threatening the whole financial system.

Banking in China

Banking in China is the bank-centric, largely government-controlled banking system of the People's Republic of China, where six state-owned banks hold about 44 percent of commercial bank assets.

Banking in Germany

Banking in Germany is organized as a three-pillar system of private commercial banks, public savings banks with their Landesbanken, and cooperative banks competing for the same customers.

Banking in India

Banking in India, also called the Indian banking sector, is the system of banks supervised by the Reserve Bank of India, mixing public, private, and foreign banks.

Banking in Italy

Banking in Italy covers a bank-dominated system of about 130 institutions in which 12 significant banks hold 88 percent of assets, supervised by the ECB and Banca d'Italia since 2014.